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Acronyms 

The following are specific acronyms frequently used in HRMS and commonly used at DOP. 

 

  

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 Acronym  Term
 ABAP  Advanced Business Application Programming
 ACH   Automated Clearing House
 ACT Code   Action Code 
 ADA   American With Disabilities Act 
 ADEA  Agency Financial Reporting System
 AGY  Agency
 ALAS  Automated Liability Apportionment Solution
 ALV  ABAP List Viewer
 AMT/Rate  Amount Rate
 APPT ST  Appointment Status
 ASD  Administrative Services Division
 ASPX  Active Server Page Extended
 ATG  Attorney General
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 BA  Business Area
 BI  Business Intelligence
 BSI  Business Software, Inc. - Provider of payroll regulatory & compliance
 solutions for HRMS
 BVFF  Board for Volunteer Firefighters
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 CAFT  Cross Agency Functional Team
 CATS  Cross-Application Timesheet
 CBAs  Collective Bargaining Agreements
 CCB  Change Control Board
 CFD  Combined Fund Drive
 CFR  Code of Federal Regulations
 CMS  Content Management System
 COLA  Cost-of-Living Adjustment
 CR  Change Request
 CSR  Civil Service Reform
 CTR  Commute Trip Reduction Program
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 DCAP  Dependent Care Assistance Program
 DCP  Deferred Compensation Plan
 DEV  Development system - generic designation for system usage
 DIS  Washington State Department of Information Services
 DNS  Domain Name Server
 DOP  Washington State Department of Personnel
 DRS  Washington State Department of Retirement Systems
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 EAP  Employee Assistance Program
 EAC  Enterprise Architecture Committee
 ECC  Enterprise Central Component - SAP's updated version of the R/3
 application suite
 EEOC  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
 EFFDT  Effective Date
 EFT  Electronic Funds Transfer
 EFTPS  Electronic Funds Payment Transfer System
 EIC  Earned Income Credit
 EIN  Employer Identification Number
 ELN  Washington State eLearning Network
 EMS  Exempt Management Service
 EP  SAP Enterprise Portal application abbreviated name
 EPA  Equal Pay Act
 ESS  Employee Self-Service
 EVA  Excess Vacation Accrual
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 FAQ  Frequently Asked Question
 FLSA  Fair Labor Standards Act
 FMLA  Family and Medical Leave Act
 FREQ  Frequency
 FSA  Flexible Spending Account
 FTE  Full Time Employee
 FY  Fiscal Year
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 GAP Inbound and Outbound Interfaces. Not intended for interfaces only. It can refer to a report – or to another component. In information technology, gap analysis is the study of the differences between two different information systems or applications often for the purpose of determining how to get from one state to a new state.
 GAAPCom  Governor's Affirmative Action Policy Committee
 GET  Guaranteed Education Tuition Program
 GG  General Government
 GGTP  General Government Transition Pool
 GL  General Ledger
 GMAP  Government Management Accountability & Performance
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 HE  Higher Education
 HR  Human Resource
 HRD  Human Resource Development environment
 HRMS  Human Resource Management System
 HRT  Human Resource Training environment
 HTML  Hyper Text Markup Language
 HTTP  Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
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 IRS  Internal Revenue Service
 ISB  Information Services Board
 ISD  Department of Personnel, Information Services Division
 IT  Information Technology
 IT  Info Type
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 JEV  Justified Excess Vacation
 Job CLS  Job Class
 JVAC Job Value Assessment Chart - points used to identify the value of Washington Management Service positions
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 LEOFF  Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire Fighters' Retirement System
 LBM  Liberty Mutual Insurance
 LC17  Local 17 Union
 LRO  Labor Relations Office
 LWOP  Leave Without Pay
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 MA  Master Agreement
 MDR  Mandatory Deduction Report
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 OASI  Old Age Survivor Insurance
 OEDS  Organizational and Employee Development Services 
 OFM  Office of Financial Management
 OLQR  On-Line Quick Reference
 OPA  Online Payment Agreement
 OST  Office of State Treasurer
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 PDF  Portable Document File
 PDP  Position Description Form
 PEBB  Public Employees Benefits Board
 PERS  Public Employees' Retirement System
 PMC  Performance Management Confirmation
 PH  Personal Holiday
 PID  Periodic Increment Date
 POS NO  Position Number
 PPA  Personnel/Payroll Association
 PRB  Personnel Resources Board
 PRNR Personnel Number - 8 digit numeric Unique identifier assigned to an employee within HRMS
 PROD  Production system - generic designation for system usage
 PSD  Personnel Services Division
 PSERS  Public Safety Employees' Retirement System
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 QA  Quality Assurance system - generic designation for system usage
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 RCW  Revised Code of Washington
 RET VET  Retired Veteran
 RIF  Reduction-in-Force
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 SAAM  State Administrative and Accounting Manual
 SAL Unit  Salary Unit
 SAP  Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing
 SAPGUI  SAP Government Uniform Invoice
 SAPUP SAP Upgrade transaction-modifies tables and structures to the newer version
 SAO  State Auditor’s Office
 SGN  State Government Network
 SGEN SAP utility program that compiles programs after an upgrade or pack/stack application
 SNRTY DT  Seniority Date
 SME  Subject Matter Expert
 SCOAS  State Committee on Agency Officials' Salaries
 SOW  State Of Washington
 SSDP  Same Sex Domestic Partner
 SPS  Abbreviation for SAP Support Stack
 SSN  Social Security Number
 SSO  Single Sign On
 SSA  Social Security Administration
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 TLLD  Time, Leave, and Labor Distribution
 TAM Tivoli Access Manager - IBM product - reverse proxy - disguises server identity when connected to the Internet
 TIP  Teamwork Incentive Program
 Tidal  DOP-owned scheduling application for batch jobs
 TRS  Washington Teachers' Retirement System
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 UNBRKN DT  Unbroken Date
 URL  Uniform Resource Locator
 USSLP  Uniformed Services Shared Leave Program
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 VEBA  Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Association
 VET SVC  Veteran Service
 VFF  Volunteer Fire Fighters
 VPN  Virtual Private Network
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 WAC  Washington Administrative Code
 WFSE  Washington Federation of State Employees
 WMS  Washington Management System
 WPD  Work Period Designation
 WPEA  Washington Public Employee Association
 Writ In law, a writ is a formal written order issued by a body with administrative or judicial jurisdiction.
 WSP  Washington State Patrol
 WSPRS  Washington State Patrol Retirement System
 WSF  Washington State Ferries
 WT  Wage Type
 WTT  Web Task Track
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 YTD  Year to Date




Created: 8/10/09 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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